Apple stops making Thunderbolt Display

Apple stops making its monitor Thunderbolt Display. The monitor has been on sale since the end of 2011. Apple has not yet announced a successor for its monitor, although the rumors about this have been going on for years.

The American company is still selling the existing stock and then the product will not return, Apple says in a statement to The Verge. That could take some time: Apple sells the 27″ monitor for 1149 euros or 999 dollars, a price that has gone up since the end of 2011. The price at release was 999 euros.

The manufacturer introduced the Thunderbolt Display as a successor to the Cinema Display in July 2011. The name comes from the Thunderbolt support in the monitor. The screen also contains three USB 2.0 ports, firewire 800, a gigabit ethernet port and a MagSafe cable, making the screen “the ultimate docking” for Mac notebooks, according to Apple. The screens also have integrated webcams and a 2.1 speaker system. The manufacturer optionally provides the display with a vesa mount.

It is unknown whether Apple will announce a successor to the monitor. Earlier this month there was a rumor that the successor will get an integrated GPU. That new monitor would also have four times as many pixels: 5120×2880 instead of 2560×1440 pixels.